By: Adam Smith

Economic Theory Literature

Excerpt: WHEN I first saw the plan and future of your very ingenious and very learned Treatise on the Wealth of Nations, it gave me a complete idea of that fife, which I had long withheld to fear the public in perihelion of. A fife, that might fix some first principles in the most important of Sciences, the knowledge of the human community, and its operations. That might become principia to the knowledge of politick operations; as Mathematics are to Mechanics, Astronomy,...